Display-rack.



No. 789,506. PATENTED MAY 9, 1905. R. J. RICE.

DISPLAY RACK.

APPLIUATION FILED $313.24, 1903. RENEWED rm 10. 1905.

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REYNOLD J. RICE, OF WATERLOO, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO NOVELTY \VOOD WVORKS, OF VATERLOO, IOWA, A CORPORATION OF IOlVA.

DISPLAY-HAUN- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,506, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed February 24, 1903. Renewed February 10, 1905. Serial No. 245,051.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, REYNOLD J. RICE, a

citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Waterloo, Blackhawk county,

Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in display-racks; and the object of my improve- IO ment is to furnish an inclosed display-rack for laces provided with hangers for the lace-holders of such a form as will permit the holders to be easily introduced or removed, but which cannot be displaced while in use.

I5 A further object is to provide the holders with price-card receptacles.

These objects I attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whicl 2 Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved display-rack, showing the manner in which a lace-holder is introduced into and suspended from a hanger. Fig. 2 is an enlarged View of a lace-holder provided withpriee-card receptacle and suspended from my improved hanger, and Fig. 3 is an under plan view of the hanger.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

3 I have shown an inclosed cabinet containing my suspended lace-holders at in; but the particular form of the cabinet is not material, nor is it absolutely essential that a cabinet should be used, for my improved hangers e may be fastened to the under side of any description of shelving or other support such as may be desired. The hangers 6 may be fastened, by means of brads IL or screws, to the under side of shelving or to the under side of 4 the horizontal cover or partition of the cabinet. These hangers are usually so placed as to lie obliquely along the under side of the shelf in order to display a considerable portion of the laces contained on the holders.

The hanger e is formed of a single piece of metal having its longer edges bent over to a position approaching each other, as shown in Fig. 3. The edge e is formed into a horizontal catch to sustain the lace-holder a.

The

edge e is formed into a vertical flange whose 5 corners (Z and g are bent or curved inward, so

as to pass beyond the line of the edge of the part (3, thus forming a cam between the corners of both edges.

The lace-holder a is formed of a wire of a substantially rectangular shape and is provided in one corner with a receptacle 7), having incurved edges to hold the price-card c.

A cabinet in, having a drop-lid 12 supported by the slide-brace m, is shown as being litted out with a set of my improved hangers with the lace-holders suspended therefrom. The lace-holder a is introduced within the hanger by having one of its upper angles slipped into the cam between the projecting corner (Z and 5 the forward corner of the support 0, thence along the support (2 and out through the cam between the projecting angle 9 and the rear corner of the support 0. The upper horizontal rod of the lace-holder a thus lies within 7 and is supported by the incurved edge a and is prevented from displacement by the projections (Z and g. The lace-holder a may be removed from the hanger c by reversing the process.

Any similar form of lace-holder having an upper horizontal bar which can be suspended in like manner from my hanger can be used in connection with said hanger, as I do not limit myself strictly to the form shown; but 30 What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A displayrack, consisting of the combination with a means of support, of a series of hangers attached thereto, each of said hangers 5 having one upturned edge placed horizontally parallel with another edge whose corners are bent beyond the line of the first edge to form a cam therewith, and a series of frames with upper horizontal bars adapted to pass within 9 said cams and be supported by the upturned edges of said hangers, substantially as shown and described.

2. A display-rack, consisting of the combination with a cabinet, of a shelf therein, hangers attached to the under side of the shelf therein,said hangers having parallel inwardlyturned edges and cams between said edges Signed at Waterloo, Iowa, this 20th day of February, 1903.

REYNOLD J. RICE.

\Vitnesses:

M. E. KENNEDY, CELEsTIA-B. KENNEDY. 

